Home Tour: Our Kitchen

Welcome to our kitchen! We've spent a lot of time in this room during our first year of marriage! We painted our cabinets with chalkboard paint for easy message writing and menu updates. I finally found a good place to store my gigantic vintage thermos collection, above the kitchen cabinets. Jeremy uses them all the time to take coffee to work. The menus above are from a recent dinner party!

I love details. Our kitchen is full of personal wedding gifts, vintage collections and as many fresh flowers as possible. I've enjoyed floral design this year, so I try to make a new bouquet or two as often as possible. The fawn cookie jar is a bit of a tease because that's where we store puppy treats!

We have enjoyed cooking together all year. We've been trying new recipes and learning a lot. I'm lucky because Jeremy loves to cook even more than I do! My specialty is fancy grilled cheese, his specialty is spagetti squash with meatballs… yum!

Above our dining room table I created a display to document our first year of marriage. On this display we save little bits like movie tickets, memories from trips, love notes, photos and maps of all the places we've visited. I love the visual reminder of the happy memories we're building. When the year is over I'll probably take it down and turn it into a scrapbook.

I love playing records in the kitchen while we're cooking and cleaning! We collect records (vintage and new) so it's fun to make this one of the focal points of our kitchen. I hope you've enjoyed this little peek into our kitchen. We have a lot of fun in here! xo. elsie

OH MY I love your kitchen!! I think I just got a little bit crazy when I saw the pictures, it’s so perfect and actually some of the details resemble my dream-kitchen! I specially love the cabinets, it’s amazing how you painted them with chalkboard paint, best idea ever! Also, your thermos collection is gorgeous, I love how you displayed it! 🙂

i absolutely love your kitchen, i think it’s my favorite part of your home tour so far (maybe the kitchen is always my favourite part 😉 ). I like the colours, the pics and the possibility to write with chalk on the drawers is a great idea!

Wow, Elsie, you have NO idea how inspirational this post is!!! Both interior design-wise AND living life-wise. 🙂 I just love the way you make everything so YOU and uses everything – even a kitchen, cooking, floral design and memorabilia – to make you HAPPY! It’s wonderful how you find so much joy in every little thing. Totally inspiring.

i love your cabinets! that’s a great idea, now just wondering how i can convince my bf to allow me to do this to ours… i recently went to a bar & grill and their table tops were of chalk paint. love it!

i love how couples cook together, it’s so meaningful <3

your posts inspires me to decorate my home... it's so boring & plain! The home is a hundred yrs old w/ so much character...

Your house reeks of LOVE:) I have really enjoyed the little peeks into your personal space. For those of us that have followed you since your start in scrapbooking, it’s fun to see you grow and blossom:) Thanks

This kitchen of yours is pretty darn adorable. All is beautifully and beamingly lovely. Great timing for me, too… my husband and I are just about to sit down and design a mini-renovation of our own tiny kitchen (thinking plum and copper and some neat vintage cabinet knobs). But I love your chalk board cabinets! Wish we could get away with this (here are two reasons why we can’t: 1. our big ol’ puppy dog would get his slobber on all the lower cabinets and wipe off the chalk and 2. I’m too short to reach the higher cabinets easily enough… ah well.) Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with your admiring peoples!

Looks like we have similar taste in kitchenaid! 🙂 I just got that blender for Christmas, in pear, to match my mixer. They make a kitchen a prettier place, I think. xo
Love your chalkboard cupboards, too.

Q: Does Jeremy have a space all his own, or that he personally chose the decor for? Would you ever show it on your blog?
A: Jeremy isn’t as interested in decorating as I am, so he didn’t decorate any of our rooms at home by himself (he didn’t want to). He did decorate his own studio, though, which we’ve already photographed to share soon! 😀

Hey! My name is Talia, I’m 13, and I am obsessed with your blog!!!! Everything you do is so inspiring and gives me great ideas. I really enjoy reading and looking at all of your amazing posts. I LOVE your style, clothing and in decorating!!! You are awesome. Thanks for all the inspiriraion, keep it coming…:)

I am really enjoying these home tour posts! When I meet new people, I am always excited when the friendship develops thus that they invite me into their house. I love seeing how people live, it says so much about them. Your space is darling, all the lovely details and the care you have taken creating a home just radiates so much love and passion! *sorryaboutgushfest*

That display is so perfect! I LOVE the idea of documenting it in this way (to remind you about the beautiful things) during the year, and then turning it into a scrapbook. Perfect for keeping memories and keeping your space fresh!!!
So nice to see your kitchen.
Inspirational as always. [:

Love it! I’ve used chalboard paint on some furniture too and it’s the best. It’s so matt that it covers really well and hides issues with the paint. I haven’t had the huevos to even use chalk on my TV cabinet cause I love how it came out so much! Love your kitchen cause it’s so full of great and affordable ideas.

This one’s my favorite too! And it’s quite a unique idea to paint your cabinets with chalkboard paint. I’ll definitely use that idea for our newly-renovated kitchen! That way, I can chalk up some possible recipes for when I’m preparing food for special holidays! =)

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I got married 3 months ago and fall under the same situation as Elizabeth3121 above. We have been thinking about getting a quick divorce so that we would qualify for the tax credit and then remarry once we close on the new house in a month.